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Rip Current Statement 26, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 6, 20194 counties in Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 6, 2019, 2:02 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Apr 6, 2019, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 6, 2019, 2:02 AM CDT (07:02 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 6, 2019, 4:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 6, 2019, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 231 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

910 
WHUS42 KTAE 060702
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
302 AM EDT Sat Apr 6 2019

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS CONTINUES FOR GULF BEACHES TODAY...

FLZ108-112-114-115-070300-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0026.190406T0900Z-190407T0300Z/
South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin-
302 AM EDT Sat Apr 6 2019 /202 AM CDT Sat Apr 6 2019/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...

The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a High Rip
Current Risk, which is in effect through this evening. 

* TIMING...Thru this evening.

* WAVE HEIGHT...Up to 3 feet.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

There is a high risk of rip currents.

Rip currents are powerful channels of water flowing quickly away
from shore, which occur most often at low spots or breaks in the
sandbar and in the vicinity of structures such as groins, jetties
and piers. Heed the advice of lifeguards, beach patrol flags and
signs.

If you become caught in a rip current, yell for help. Remain
calm, do not exhaust yourself and stay afloat while waiting for
help. If you have to swim out of a rip current, swim parallel to
shore and back toward the beach when possible. Do not attempt to
swim directly against a rip current as you will tire quickly. 

&&

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 2:20 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 5 more	7 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.